Samgoma Edwards [Young Hov in Roc Boys]

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Samgoma Edwards

There's Young Hov, but then there's really young Hov. Samgoma Edwards is the 15-year-old Bronx native who plays Jay-Z's corner-boy incarnation in the upcoming video for "Roc Boys (And the Winner Is ...)." Director Chris Robinson personally sought out Edwards for the role after Edwards, his brother Samtubia, and producer Chris Alvarez shot their own video project titled "The Young Hov Project," based on tracks from Jay-Z's The Black Album. Robinson saw Edwards star as Jay in the Gorilla Films videos posted on YouTube and reached out. The rest has been a star turn for the high school sophomore.

"It was crazy when I went to school [after the video came out]," Edwards told Mixtape Monday while taking a bathroom break from class to sneak in an interview. "I couldn't even breathe my own oxygen. It was wild. I only told, like, three of my friends and was like, 'Yo, keep your mouth shut about this.' I just wanted people to see it when it first came out. I didn't tell anybody."

Edwards is an admitted Jay fan, but he only began listening to the rapper with The Black Album. "The track that I liked was 'My First Song,' " he said. "It was the last track, and I thought that was gonna be his last album and everything, so I just thought, 'Yo, he's doing his thing.' "

Mixtape Monday

Jay-Z Borrows The-Dream's 'Hook'

Mixtape Monday

Jay-Z told us the obvious: Just Blaze is to blame for him getting on the remix of Saigon's "Come on Baby."

"I met Saigon before," Jay said last week in L.A. "He's a cool guy as well. But Just Blaze ... that's his artist. So we had records and work like that. It's in-house.

"Big fan? Of Saigon? "Yeah, he's good," Jay added. "But I wouldn't have did it ... to be honest with you. I like Saigon. If I don't have a relationship with the artist, I'm not just doing it for the sake of doing it. If you look at my past record, I've done records because of relationship, not 'cause this guy's good or whatever."

One good guy Jay is feeling is an artist under his Def Jam label, The-Dream. Dream (a Fire Starter alumnus — told you so, haters) is smashing the game with his "Shawty Is a 10," in which he's feeling himself so much he proclaims he doesn't need a chorus on the song: "I don't need no hook for this sh--!" Jay took his non-chorus chorus for the American Gangster song "No Hook."

"I was working on this song and it just keeps going and I get down to how many bars the verse is, and I'm like, 'What's gonna be the hook for this?' " Jay remembered. "Then I was like, 'I don't need a hook for this.' That, of course, led me to the Dream song, and I was like, 'I'm just gonna take that.' "

"When he played all the records [off his album] and I heard that record and he's saying, 'I don't need no hook,' I was like, 'That's crazy,' " The-Dream gushed. "This is Jay saying this? It's a whole 'nother level of respect. It's crazy. I remember when Jay was playing it at the 40/40 club. Like, 'Y'all don't know nothing about this.' People was calling saying, 'Jay ran the song back six times.' " ...

American Gangster Reviews: Updated

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Nas Reveals 'Crazy Joint' With Jay-Z

Nas wants to drop his first single for n!gga two or three days after November 6, which is the day his greatest-hits LP and Jay-Z's American Gangster drop. Nas appears on Hov's set via the track "Success."

"The record with Jay, that's a crazy joint," he said. "Homeboy is laser-sharp with his sh--. And he's got a crazy album. I'm really proud of him. It made me proud. Yeah, I'm on the joint. I'm on there." ...


Mixtape Monday: Nas Reveals 'Crazy Joint' With Jay-Z

This Life Forever

"This Life Forever"

“America don't understand it, the demographics I tapped in/ I'm the truest nigga to do this nigga and anything else is foolish/ Like those who stay high, under God's grey skies/ My lyrics is like Bible, made to save lives/ In the midst of all your misery nigga, stay fly/ Never let em see you frown, even smile when you down/ Shit, I floss on my off-days fuck what they all say/ Niggas cant stop me like rumors, i'm too strong"

"Roc Boys" Lyrics

Lyrical Nutrition

First of all
I wanna thank my connect
The most important person
With all due respect
Thanks to the duffle bag
The Brown paper bag
The Nike shoe box
For holding all this cash
Boys in blue who put greed
Before the badge
The 1st pusher whoever made the stash
The roc boys in the building tonight
Oh what a feeling I’m feeling life
Thanks to the lames
Niggas with bad aim
Thanks to a lil change
I tore you out the game
Bullet wounds will stop your bafoonery
Thanks to the pastor rapping at your eulogy
To lil kim and them
You know the women friend
Who carry the work cross state for a gentlemen
Yeah thanks to all the hustlers
But most important to you the customer

Chorus

The Roc Boys in the building tonight
Oh what a feeling I’m feeling life
You ain’t even gotta bring ya paper out
We the dope boys of the year
Drinks is on the house
The roc boys is in the building tonight
Look at how I’m chillin
I’m killing this ice
You aint even gotta bring
Ya purses out
We the dope boys of the year
Drinks is on the house

Let ya hair down baby
I just hit a score
Pick any place on the planet
Pick a shore
Take what the Forbes figured then figure more
Cuz they forgot to account what I did with the raw
Pick a timeless
Pick apart some stores
Pick a weekend for freaking for figure fours
I figure frauds never hit a lick before
So they don’t know the feeling
When them things get across
Put ya hand out the window
Feel the force feel the porche
Hit the frost
Ice cold
Jewels got no flaws
Drop got no top
You on the top floor
Pink rose, think OJ
I get away with murder
When I sling ye
Heron got less steps than Britney
That means it ain’t stepped on dig me

Chorus

Red Porsches, rare portraits
Rare guns if you dare come near the fortress
This apple sauce is from
The apple orchid
This kind of talk is only reserved
For the bosses
Which means I get it from the ground
Which means you get it when I’m around
Rich niggas, black bar mitzvahs
Mazel Tov, it’s a celebrations es
L’Chaim, I wish for you a 100
Years of success but it’s my time
Cheers toast to the crime
#1 D boy shame he could rhyme

UPDATE:
Yeah that’s Little Brother on the Jeezy adlibs.

via YN

Word [on 'Big Brother']

On "Big Brother:

Do you think it's a fair portrayal?
--------------------------------

“I think it's a fair portrayal from a little brother's perspective. You know, you've got your big brother and you want to go out with him, he's like, ''Nah, get back in the house!'' Things like that, until you come of age. At Roc-A-Fella, we've always lived by tough love. Everyone knows that. It's nothing given. Everyone has to work for theirs, and that's how you make strong individuals, by not carrying them. That's how you make a Kanye West. You make him fight for his position.”

~EW, Sept. 2007

JD on Jay-Z [Vibe Interview]

Typed by Me!

Portion from JD's Vibe Interview in the November 2007 Issue discussing Jay-Z.

Last February, L.A. Reid named you president of Island Records Urban Music. Did you have any trepidation, given your positive relationship with Jay-Z, who's rumored to be leaving his post as president of Island Def Jam?

Not at all. What I do and what Jay-Z does are two different things. I make records as a producer. I've been putting out successful artists before Roc-A-Fella was here. That's why I was really [stressing] that I wasn't really part of the Def Jam thing. I'm president of Island.

How ironic is it that you're responsible for introducing Jay-Z as a crossover act-- with 1996's "Money Ain't a Thing" (Def Jam)?

I didn't go to Jay-Z and say, "Let me get you poppin'." I went to Jay-Z based on the fact that I liked what I heard from him on Reasonable Doubt. From that point on I became a real Jay-Z fan. I made a record with an artist who didn't even have any pop appeal. New York was feeling me after that.

What about the rumors that you're pushing Jay-Z out?

Come on, man. I can't make Jay-Z leave Def Jam. I haven't put out any records yet. Jay has all of his records out: Ne-Yo, Rihanna, and Fabolous. Jay is putting his numbers up right now.

Do you find that some people have a problem with Def Jam-- the label behind LL Cool J, Public Enemy, and Slick Rick- recruiting an executive who proudly represents the south?

Some people are trying to shun my ideas. I know some people at the label don't want to turn Def Jam into Def Jam south. They're not prepared for this Southern movement that's going on.

Do you plan on taking over Jay-Z's post if he leaves?

Nah...Never.

So no Ghostface snap records with Dem Franchize Boys?

What people should understand is it don't get more hip hop than me. I grew up in the real era of hip hop--before LL Cool J was signed to Def Jam. I was performing on the Fresh Fest tour and he was in the audience. When people take shots at me about not being real hip hop, I laugh. I love Mos Def and Talib Kweli and Nas and I love Common. I'm a true B-boy, but I still represent the South.

To read the full interview cop the November issue of Vibe.

'Blue Magic' best debut by a rap single this year...

J. Holiday's "Bed" begins a third week at No. 1 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, on which Jay-Z has the year's best debut by a rap single with "Blue Magic" at No. 35. The cut is the lead track from the Def Jam honcho's Nov. 6 album, "American Gangster."

Billboard

"Blue Magic" Lyrics

This might not be 100% correct, but it's the best I've ran across so far:

I've made some edits since listening to the dirty version. Props to the person who actually took the time to write out the lyrics.

*JAY-Z TALKING *

Rocafella Records
The Imperial Skateboard P
Great Hova
Y'all already know what it is! (Oh shit)

(VERSE 1)

So what if you flipped a couple words
I can triple that in birds
Open your mind you'll see the circus in the sky
I'm Ringling Bros, Barnum & Bailey with the pies
No matter how you slice it, I'm ya muthafuckin' guy
Just like a B-boy with 360 waves
Do the same with a pot, still come back beige
Whether right or south par
Whether powder to jar
Whip it around, still comes back hard
so easily do I W-H-I-P
My repitition with riches will bring the kilo business
I got Creole C-O bitches for my niggas who
slip the game prisoners treats take to the visitors
You already know what the business is
Unneccesary commissary, boy we live this shit
N*ggas Wanna bring the 80's back
That's OK with me, that's where they made me at
Except I don't write on the wall
I write my name in the History books hustlin' in the hall
Nah, I don't spin on my head
I spin the work in the pot so I can spend my bread

(CHORUS)
And i'm gettin' it
I'm gettin' it
I ain't talkin' about it
I'm livin' it
I'm gettin it
Straight gettin' it
G-gg-g-g-get it boy
Don't you waste your time
Fighting blind
Stay your course
And you'll understand
Get it boy


(VERSE 2)
This '87 state of mind that I'm in
In my prime before that time i'm Rakim
If it wasn't for the crime that i was in
Then I wouldn't be the guy who rhymes it is that I'm in
No pain, no profit
Key I repeat if he show you where the pot is
Cherry M3's with the top back
Red & green G's all on my hat
North Beach leathers, matching Gucci sweater
Gucci sneaks on to keep my outfit together
Whatever, hundred for the diamond chain
Can't you tell that I came from the dope game?
Blame Reagan for making me into a monster
Blame Oliver North and Iran Contra
I ran contraband that they sponsored
Before this rhyming stuff, we was in concert

(CHORUS)
And i'm gettin' it
I'm gettin' it
I ain't talkin' about it
I'm livin' it
I'm gettin it
Straight gettin' it
G-gg-g-g-get it boy
Don't you waste your time
Fighting blind
Stay your course
And you'll understand
Get it boy

(VERSE 3)
Push (push )
Money over broads, you got it
Fuck Bush
Chef, guess what I cooked?
Baked a lot of bread and kept it off the books
Rock Star, look
Way before the bars, my picture was getting took
Feds, they like wack rappers
Try as they may, they couldn't get me on the hook
Uh, D.A. wanna indict me
Cause fish scales in my veins like a Pisces
The Pyrex pot caller, my sleeves
Turn one into two like a Siamese
Twin when it end
I'ma stand as a man
Never dying on my knees
Last of a dying breed
So let the champagne pop
I partied for a while
Now I'm back to the block

(CHORUS)
And i'm gettin' it
I'm gettin' it
I ain't talkin' about it
I'm livin' it
I'm gettin it
Straight gettin' it
G-gg-g-g-get it boy
Don't you waste your time
Fighting blind
Stay your course
And you'll understand
get it boy


(DENZEL)
Blue Magic, that's a brand name, like Pepsi. That's a brand name, I stand behind it, I guarantee it. They know that even if they don't know me anymore than they know the Chairman of General Mills.

(JAY-Z)

My man!

So Much More

Previous Items from the Roc With Me news post:

◊ Pap video: Leaving Diddy's "Unforgivable Women" Launch Party

◊ GQ 50th Anniversary Party Pics @ Wireimage and FilmMagic and also Getty

◊ EW Fall Music Q&A: Jay-Z Toasts Kanye West's "Graduation"
------Kanye Crushes 50 Cent In Huge Album Sales Week That's major! Patiently, waits for more 50 excuses.

◊ NO DJ: I Get Money RMX ft. Diddy, Jay; Full CDQ Quality [via Nahright]

♠ Vote for Jay-Z as Hip Hop Artist of the Year and in the Vibe Props Category @ The Vibe Awards!

◊ Jay lands 4 Hip Hop Award Nominations! Click here to see the nominees.

◊ My Night at the Grammys!! Click here to vote!

♠ 40/40 Club to open in Vegas! Interview with Luxe Life !

---Press Conference Pics ; Robin Leach Reports

♥ View Pics: Young Turbo and Young B in Cali (Followed by bodyguards, the superstar couple drove their convertible Porsche to a Malibu home after a quick stop at a drugstore the day before her 26th birthday) *Props to T (the one and only)*

♥ (8/29) Jay and Bee check out Team USA game More pics at BWorld
------Clip backstage at game
------ mini CLIP of Jay making beats lol and LaBron representing

♠ Jigga at MAGIC Marketplace - Day 2 (I do not have an account :( )
--- Signature Apparel Group Party at Tao

♠ S. DOT ULTIMATUM Code Name: Project Take Over (Bourne Ultimatum music video/short film teaser trailer starring Jay-Z ( as the Rap Jason Bourne); True!

♠ Read a book, Read a book, Read a m*f'ing book! Here's one LOL I Will Not Lose!!:Finding Inspiration from the Words of Jay-Z Hip-Hop’s Greatest Hustler.

♠ An "I Get Money" Remix in the works?

♠ Saigon says Jay-Z is 'Rain Man' (can't wait to hear this!)

◊ New Jersey Nets Brooklyn Arena

◊ Listen to a snippet of Big Brother! (Video of Kanye w/Tim Westwood ) [spotted at NahRight]

◊ They find out you made $34M and they come looking for ya! lol *just the first time I've ever seen that*

◊ What's Kanye's "Big Brother" all about? Read Here // Jay's reaction to the track!

◊ #1 Hip Hop Cash King Check for the special on E! Rock on TV this weekend!

♥ New pics of Jay and Beyonce holidaying in Portofino in June

◊ Jay-Z - Dig A Hole (Original beat) (done by Just Blaze; new verse at the end) link via Nahright , Just Blaze's Blog

◊ Inside Roc The Mic Studios (Jay's new studio)Website Coming soon!

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◊ Jay's VMA Nominations (Quadruple Threat, 2 w/Rihanna for Umbrella) What happen to all the other categories???

◊ Jay lands at #2 on Esquires Best Dressed Men in the World List

◊ Jay-Z Sews Up Venture With Eminem, Young Jeezy

♥ Beyonce shows love!

◊ Jay-Z Calls Kanye West And 50 Cent's LP Face-Off 'A Fantastic Thing For Hip-Hop'
------Watch Video Here

◊ Jay briefly discusses rumored Columbia Records move + Hot 97 Interview w/Angie rescheduled for Friday, August 3

♥ (July 23) Jay and Bee in Miami Beach

♥ All Together Now...Aww! lol View Others Here via BeyonceWorld

♠ Jay attends Solange's 21st birthday party: pics Here and Here

♠ VH1 Is Set To Relive The Making Of Reasonable Doubt [Something to look forward to! :)]

[Premo talks abit about it towards the end of THIS interview]

♠ Jay has written the intro to Michael Eric Dysons new book "Know What I Mean: Reflections On Hip-Hop". A book that addresses many of the issues affecting Hip-Hop and the Hip-Hop community. Nas has written the outro, but you can read Jays intro HERE. The book will be out on July 2nd Go Cop When It Drops!.

♠ Jay spits game to Larry Johnson

♠ Pics: Visiting Marine Land in Portofina, Italy; More @ Sexy-Sugah (must have been a trip for the kiddies lol)

♠ New T.I. feat. Jay-Z - Watch What You Say (off of T.I. Vs T.I.P. Go Cop When It Drops July 3rd!)

♥ Day 100 of us watching while they yachtin' : On Yacht in Portafino, Italy (Yes, I feel like I'm being a little intrusive, you should too! LOL) Pics also available HERE.

♥ This is mad nice! Check out Lady Lola, the yacht Jay and Bee are currently vacationing on!

◊ T.I. Vs. T.I.P. Preview: Bragging With Jay-Z, Going Down South With Eminem

♥ Pics: J & B Still Chillin' in the South of France
------Others > Nude Beach

♠ When Amy met Jay?

♠ You can purchase specific covers of the Vanity Fair Africa issue from Amazon.

♠ Jay lands on Forbes Magazines Celebrity 100 List. View Full List! He's also on the cover.

♠ "I rhyme sicker than every rhyme spitter/ Every crime ni**a that rhyme or touch a mic because my mind's quicker" (c) Hola Hovita Spike TV "GUYS CHOICE" Awards "Sickest Rhymes" Winner

♠ New Freeweezy feat. Jay-Z - Big Spender (off of "Free At Last" go cop when it drops July 19th!)

♠ If you wanna get to Lil Miss Sunshine you have to go through Rain Man first!
^^^^^^^A little clear up in Hello Magazine ;)

♠ "It humorous to me they watchin and we just yachtin" Jay & B vaca-away in France
-----More Pics at Sexy-Sugah and Beyonce 1 World 2

♠ Jay-Z joins Kanye to help celebrate his 30th Birthday!

♠ *No Offense* I wouldn't normally post this but don't HE just look like he LYING? lol (If the story is not on that page anymore CHECK this page to see what I'm talking about.) I done got jipped by a couple of dudes that look like him in the mall. I mean, plus those quotes he says "Beyonce told me" came from her '04 Rolling Stone article and some other article I can't remember. The British Press *gosh* Sorry Focus! lol

♠ Jay-Z and GIANT Magazines Exclusive MTV Movie Awards After Party - Arrivals "

♠ Jay and Beyonce chilling in Monaco pics via Sexy Sugah

♠ Fabolous ft. Jay-Z & Uncle Murda - Brooklyn (CD Quality) via nahright

♠ Pics [May 25]: 2007 Cannes Film Festival - Dolce & Gabbana Party White suits...they get me everytime!

◊ Tidbit about the new Rocawear Campaign

◊ Top Secret Documents Reveal Rappers Jay-Z, Diddy, Others Monitored Before 2004 RNC

◊ Listen/Download Amy Winehouse feat. Jay-z - Rehab Remix

◊ Rocawear and Jay-Z Celebrate New Face of Rocawear Ladies Ciara pics via Ultimate Ciara

♠ BET Award Nominations: Best Male Hip Hop Artist & Best Collaboration Nominee (BET! BET! BET! Some of those nominations seem off to me Well, at least three. Personally, I believe SMWG should have been nominated for Video of The Year! Sometimes it just seems like it's no one to nominate.)

♠ Jay at Fab's Listening Session (mtv) and USDA's Listening Session via RealTalkNy

◊ NYC Council Honors Jay-Z's Mom ; View pics at Sexy-Sugah

◊ MTV Movie Awards To Get Rocked By Jay-Z, Rihanna, Amy Winehouse

◊ Beanie Sigel featured in this weeks Mixtape Monday (speaks on his decision to stay with Rocafella)

♠ (May 5) Jay hosts the Tao Beach Club Grand Opening after the De La Hoya vs. Mayweather fight (This shit seemed MAD fun! Love it!) More pictures at Sexy-Sugah Hi Haters! lol

◊ Jay-Z's new studio Wiz. In Control: Neo Da Matrix --myspace

♠ Victoria's Secret names "What Is Sexy?" list

♠ Jay-Z at 67? (More New York celebrities get aged by computer whiz Dr. D'Lynn Waldron)

♠ VOTE for Jay-Z on to be apart of Time Magazines 100 Most Influential List!!!

♠ T.I, Beans, Rick Ross, Dame Grease all get some help from Jigga on their new albums.

♠ Jay-Z Goes To 'Rehab' With Amy Winehouse For 'Wicked' Remix (I like her!)

♠ (April 16) Jay and Beyonce hit up MSG for a Nets vs. Knicks Game ----Pics via Sexy Sugah


♠ "Laff At 'Em" (Give It 2 Me Rmx) Timbaland ft. Jay-Z & Justin Timberlake

♠ Jay-Z Rep On Child: 'There Is No Truth To These Ridiculous Rumors' ( It makes no sense to me anyway that he would deny his child considering that he knows the pain of growing up without a father and he's expressed that he wants and loves kids. They just keep trying to bring a brother down! Shame, shame on these Ho's! Yes, Ho's!)

♠ Jay-Z Endorses Ace of Spade Champagne

◊ Listen to Rihanna's new single "Umbrella" ft. Jay! OR Read about it! (if you can't listen to it, like myself :-< )

◊ Click Here to Vote for Jay @ the 2007 Urban Music Awards (must login or register)

◊ Little Wayne apologizes to his "Idol"

◊ Nas: "There will be a Black Republicans Video "

◊ Congrats to Jigga on winning Best R&B/Soul or Rap Music Video (the Michael Jackson award) for "Show Me What You Got" at the 21st Annual Soul Train Music Awards! View Complete List of Winners

◊ Jay-Z to induct Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five into Rock and Roll Hall of Fame [Video Posted Here]

◊ Jay-Z Sells Clothing Company Rocawear For $204 Million In Cash ("If you ballin' then what I'm doing can't be defined" ha)

◊ Cherry Coke Gets Fresh Jay-Z Remix ; Rocawear Designed Can for Cherry Coke Zero

◊ Jay's cleats enter Football Hall of Fame!

♠ Jay-Z Receives 2 NAACP Image Award Nominations: "Outstanding Male Artist", "Outstanding Music Video" (Show Me What You Got) Nominees List

♠ My Favorite Hue is Jay-Z Blue!

♠ Chrisette Michele talks about working on "Lost Ones"

♠ What is Gilbert Arenas Talking About? *Nevermind, It's not a new cd though lol * Actually, Gilbert (who is now another one of my NBA Husbands haha) labeled his season "The Takeover", the inspiration for the nickname is from Jay's joint "Takeover". (si) Gilbert talks about IT here.

♠ Get Your 40/40 Club Gossip !

♠ Added the GQ Men of the Year Magazine Scans and the XXL Scans

♠ A Guide To Beyonce And Jay-Z's 'Upgrade You'

♠ There's a better option for the '08 election!

♠ Jay-Z TalkAsia Transcript

♠ Beyonce and Jay-Z Won Big Power Couple at the VH1 Big in '06 Awards!

♠ The bling philanthropist [from the Telegraph]

♠ Jay-Z: Moving Beyond Bling to a Battle for Clean Wa ter

♠ Jay-Z Reclaims His Kingdom with the Number 1 Spot!

JAY-Z's Ninth #1 Album Debut, KINGDOM COME, Ties Him With The Rolling Stones

♠ The Coolest Mogul (Dec. 4th Issue Newsweek)

♠ Jay-Z Acts Globally, Thinks Family

♠ Presidential Invasion Mixtape Info + DL: "Corporate Takeover"

♠ XXL Countdown to Kingdom Come Pieces: (includes topics not included in the article)

8) Grand Finale (of the XXL Countdown to Kingdom Come)

7) Jay on Bee

6) B.I. Vs Friendship via XXL

5) Growing Up via XXL

4) How Hova and Dre built Kingdom Come’s blueprint! (XXL Countdown: Pt. 3)

3) XXL: Jay-Z Countdown to Kingdom Come Pt. 2

2) Jay, Guru, Just talk about those fake tracklistings and finishing the album! via XXL Countdown to Kingdom Come Pt. 1

------1) "Myspace Jumpoff"


♠ Jay on the cover of "Life Magazine" + Pics + Quotes

♠ Just Blaze TV: The Making of Show Em What You Got

♠ Jay-Z's Entertainment Weekly Article ( August '06 )

Word [...September 16]

“I'm in that space in my life where I want to push the envelope: I'm looking to do big things that are going to open up doors for myself and for the culture of hip-hop. If I carry myself in the right way, then corporate America will be more likely to deal with another African American. I'm thinking on a larger scale now. Next year I want everyone to turn the corner.”
~Insyle Magazine, Dec. 2004

Saigon says Jay-Z is 'Rain Man'

Saigon says Jay-Z is Rain Man (MTV)


"He's gone now!" Saigon's rap career is finally fast-tracked now that he has an official single from his debut LP, The Greatest Story Never Told. "Come on Baby" has been burning up the mix shows, and a video is forthcoming.

"Being that it's rock-influenced, I wanna get a rock band. Remember [Run-DMC's] 'Walk This Way'? I wanted to do it just like that," he explained of a treatment he has in his head. "Me and Just [Blaze] in one side of the studio, doing some rap stuff, they doing their rock stuff [on another side], then we banging on the wall. We wanna use 'Walk This Way' as sort of like a blueprint. The record is real rock-influenced, let's incorporate that into the video, instead of us just being in the club.

"It's just me braggin' about being good on the mic," he added about the record, which samples the J. Geils Band. "I was like OK, I put 'Pain in My Life' out. People know I'm a serious artist. But to get more of a graduation-scale introduction to the world, a bigger scale, I wanted to let them know I like to have fun as well. I'm a human being. I'm not just a preachy type of guy. 'Pain in My Life' was a little preachy, I wanted to show diversity. I don't want to be typecast and put in a category of just a backpack rapper or conscious rapper or gangster rapper. I'm one of the rappers you can't typecast because I can do a song with Dead Prez, I can do a song with Uncle Murda, then do a song with Jay-Z."

Sai has a remix of "Come on Baby" (which you can hear a snippet of in this video) in the works that Jay has already laid vocals to. "Yeah, Jay's on my album. He's on the remix to the single, he aired it out. I still gotta go back and rewrite my verse," the Yardfather told.

"He really does the 'Rain Man' thing, he doesn't sit down and write," he continued. "For mad years, I was like, 'He's too clever, I don't believe he don't write [lyrics] down. He's too on point.' But with this beat, when he came to record to it, he never heard the beat before and his rhyme went so perfect with the beat. I was like he couldn't have wrote this at home, he couldn't have had this in the stash. Maybe this dude do got more brain cells than everybody else. I tell him all the time, 'You an alien, man.' "

Saigon's Myspace

Word [...August 25]

“I knew I was witty around the sixth grade,” he said. “I just had that feeling of being smart. We did some tests in the sixth grade and I was on a twelfth grade level. I was crazy happy about that. When the test scores came back that was the first moment I realized I was smart.”
~Rolling Stone 2005

[Tracklisting] S. Carter 2 (Nojo Collectors Edition)

Jay-Z - S. Carter 2 (Nojo Collectors Edition)
Download Links available HERE

1. The godfather iii-intro
2. Genesis (stackhouse recordings mix)
3. The truth behind hova
4. Life story (seen it all) (stackhouse recordings mix)
5. A real nigga (stackhouse recordings mix)
6. We got that fire feat. lil wayne (stackhouse recordings mix)
7. Watch what you say feat t.i.
8. Club musik feat. kanye west (stackhouse recordings mix)
9. Interlude
10. What more can i say feat. 50 cent (stackhouse recordings mix)
11. Crazy feat. ne-yo
12. So crazy feat. beyonce (stackhouse recordings mix)
13. Brooklyn feat. fabolous and uncle murder
14. Give it to me rmx feat. timbaland and justin timberlake
15. Interlude 2
16. The godfathers feat. nas and biggie (stackhouse recordings mix)
17. I get it feat. jadakiss (stackhouse recordings mix)
18. Trouble feat. beanie sigel (stackhouse recordings mix)
19. The hustle feat. mary j. blige (stackhouse recordings mix)
20. I love bitches (stackhouse recordings mix)
21. Spanish fly feat. biggie and r. kelly (stackhouse recordings mix)
22. Umbrella (cinderella) mix feat. rihanna and chris brown
23. Interlude 3
24. Still feelin it (stackhouse recordings mix)
25. I love girls feat. slick rick and biggie (stackhouse recordings mix)
26. Big spender feat. freeway
27. Block on smash feat. fabolous and jeezy
28. Hova feat. t-pain (stackhouse recordings mix)
29. Rehab rmx feat. amy whinehouse
30. Dead presidents ii (bonus)

[Tracklisting] Jay-Z And Tapemasters Inc - An American Gangster

Jay-Z And Tapemasters Inc - An American Gangster
Download Links available HERE

▌ 01. Denzel Washington & Pain In Da Azz - An American Gan 01:09 ▐
▌ 02. Jay-Z - The Greatest To Ever Do It (Prod. By Cookin 01:31 ▐
▌ 03. Jay-Z - I Cant Stop (Prod. By Shotti & Lefty) 02:20 ▐
▌ 04. Jay-Z Feat. Nas - Dont Hate Me (Prod. By Black Frida 02:04 ▐
▌ 05. Jay-Z Feat. Raekwon - New York (Prod. By Hasan Insan 02:02 ▐
▌ 06. Jay-Z - December 4th - June 7th (Prod. By Hasan Insa 03:56 ▐
▌ 07. Jay-Z Feat. Young Jeezy - Makin Millions (Prod. By M 03:16 ▐
▌ 08. Jay-Z Feat. Kanye West - Never Change (Prod. By Blac 03:23 ▐
▌ 09. Jay-Z Feat. Lil Wayne - ------- Clarity (Prod. By Ha 02:59 ▐
▌ 10. Jay-Z - Me & My Radio (Prod. By Black Friday) 01:55 ▐
▌ 11. Jay-Z Feat. T.I. & Bun B - Pimpin Is Born (Prod. By 03:19 ▐
▌ 12. Jay-Z - Lucifer (Remix) (Prod. By Hasan Insane) 03:23 ▐
▌ 13. Jay-Z - The Return (Prod. By Hasan Insane) 02:25 ▐
▌ 14. Jay-Z Feat. Nas - Allure (Prod. By Hasan Insane) 04:48 ▐
▌ 15. Jay-Z Feat. Jill Scott & Don Byas - Heart of The Bla 03:14 ▐
▌ 16. Jay-Z Feat. Chester French - Excuse Me Miss (Remix) 04:39 ▐
▌ 17. Jay-Z - Change Clothes (Remix) (Prod. By DJ Mills) 03:39 ▐
▌ 18. Jay-Z - 99 Problems (Fall Out Boy Remix) (Prod. By B 03:43 ▐
▌ 19. Pain In Da Azz - Interlude 00:27 ▐
▌ 20. Jay-Z Feat. Timbaland & Justin Timberlake - Laff At 02:10 ▐
▌ 21. Jay-Z Feat. Fabolous - Brooklyn 02:02 ▐
▌ 22. Jay-Z Feat. Freeway - Big Spender 03:16 ▐
▌ 23. Jay-Z - Pressure 01:19 ▐
▌ 24. Jay-Z - Umbrella 00:33 ▐
▌ 25. Jay-Z Feat. T.I. & Beyonce - Upgrade U 01:32 ▐
▌ 26. Jay-Z Feat. Pharrell - Young Girl 00:34 ▐
▌ 27. Jay-Z - Crazy 00:29 ▐
▌ 28. Jay-Z Feat. Amy Winehouse - Rehab 00:55 ▐
▌ 29. Jay-Z Feat. T.I. - Watch What You Say 01:19 ▐
▌ 30. Jay-Z Feat. Green Lantern - ASAP Freestyle 02:20 ▐
▌ 31. Jay-Z - Tru Life Freestyle 01:04 ▐
▌ 32. Jay-Z - Return From World Tour Hot 97 Freestyle 04:39 ▐
▌ ----------------- ▐
▌ Total Time 76:24 ▐

[Tracklisting] Fade To Black - The Mixtape

Mark Ronson & Jay-Z: Fade To Black - The Mixtape Tracklisting
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Live From Madison Square Garden
The Abridged Life Story of Sean Carter Thus Far by Mark Ronson
Can I Get Open
In My Lifetime (Remix)
Dead Presidents II
Cashmere Thoughts
Can't Knock The Hustle
Brooklyn's Finest
B.I.G. Tribute
Foundation
Streets Is Watching
A Million & One Questions (Premier Remix)
Where I'm From
Marcy To Hollywood
Hard Knock Life (Live)
Jigga What, Jigga Who (Live)
Money, Cash, Hoes
Big Pimpin (Live)
Do It Again
So Ghetto
Change The Game
I Just Wanna Love U
You, Me, Him & Her (Live)
U Don't Know
Girls, Girls, Girls
Heart of the City
Takeover
The Ruler's Back
1, 2 Y'all
PSA
Dirt Off Your Shoulder (New Verse)
99 Problems (Ronson Remix)
Lucifer
December 4
Farewell To The King (Jay's Goodnight)
The Return - Best of Both Worlds II
Don't Let Me Die - Best of Both Worlds II
Big Chips - Best of Both Worlds II
Freestyle
Pump It Up Freestyle
Encore (Live)

Jay-Z Sews Up Venture With Eminem, Young Jeezy

The Streets Is Talking: News & Notes From The Underground

mtv.com

Superman can fly, the Joker loves a good laugh and Jay-Z gets paid. These things are common knowledge. Still, Hov says he doesn't take his success for granted and even takes time to reflect on it.

"It's something I look at quite often and say, 'Wow,' " said the man who recently clocked in at #9 on the Forbes list of top-earning entertainers. "Of course, it's very humbling. Starting out, you believe you're gonna have success, but it's no way to imagine the type of success I've had. There's no way to dream that out. I've passed every goal I set for myself, but it's still hustling at the end of the day. Legal hustling. You incorporate that same type of go-getter attitude. It's just part of my personality."

Jigga's flip game has been so proper that Rocawear now has co-ventures with Eminem's Shady clothing line and Young Jeezy's 8732 apparel.

"It's a thing for us," Jay said. "All of us, we had the same type of struggle to impart some of that wisdom. I may know a little bit more about clothing at this particular time than Jeezy, but he's flying lower than me, so he may know more about what's going on in the streets a little quicker than I. Not much quicker, but a little quicker." ...

Word [...August 6]

Jay on Family

"...I'm like my mom's husband," he says. "I'm a very good friend to her." He says he pulls the ends together for his family, like a father would. "I'm really the dude in the family," he says. "And I want to be that. I take care of everybody, and they love me and respect me for that. But they don't kiss my ass or treat me any different because of it. That's the beauty of it."
~Rolling Stone Magazine 2001

Word [...July 6]

"Jay: The only time your relationship means anything to people that don't give a shit about you, is when you get together, have a baby or break-up. All the in-between is bullshit to cause something else to happen. They're trying to fuck your shit up. Why even feed into the gossip?" XXL, 2006

Word [...June 16]

"You've got kids that inherited stuff from their parents...They don't appreciate it because it was no work; there's no A to Z, it's just Z. To me, you need somewhere to start, somewhere to be like, "Man, I ain't never going back to not being able to pay my light bill, my stomach growling, eating cereal at night, peanut butter and jelly off the spoon, mayonnaise sandwiches." This is real. I'm talking from a place where if groceries came and we got to put bananas on the cereal, it was a treat. That was the shit that you can't fathom." May 2003, Entertainment Weekly

Word [May 21-June 2]

Tidbit About the new Rocawear Campaign

Ciara was toasted by Jay-Z and Young Jeezy Thursday night in New York as the Atlanta singer celebrated being named the new face of the Roc-A-Wear ladies' line. Ciara follows in the footsteps of Naomi Campbell and actress Zoe Saldana. The new campaign will be titled "I Will Not Lose" and feature testimonials by a number of personalities who've overcome various hardships, including Amy Steele, the editor-in-chief of Virginia Tech campus newspaper The Collegiate Times. ...

via MTV.Com